Sandy Woodward quotes

“You must act in the face of reality, never taking counsel of you own worst fears.”
-- Sandy Woodward

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“A total absence of self-doubt is the first sign of insanity.”
-- Sandy Woodward

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“You have to acquire a personal peace of mind which comes with understanding.”
-- Sandy Woodward

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“You shall use all your senses to monitor very carefully all that goes on about you, inside and outside.”
-- Sandy Woodward

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“And having thus chosen our course, without guile, and with pure purpose, let us renew our trust in God, and go forward without fear, and with manly hearts.”

“One can choose to go back toward safety or forward toward growth. Growth must be chosen again and again; fear must be overcome again and again.”

“The relentless note of incipient hysteria, the invitation to panic, the ungrounded scenarios - the overwhelming and underlying desire for something truly terrible to happen so that you could have something really hot to talk about - was still startling. We call disasters unimaginable, but all we do is imagine such things. That, you could conclude mordantly, is the real soundtrack of our time: the amplification of the self-evident toward the creation of paralyzing, preëmptive paranoia.”

“All the best stories in the world are but one story in reality - the story of escape. It is the only thing which interests us all and at all times, how to escape.”

“We are apt to say that a foreign policy is successful only when the country, or at any rate the governing class, is united behind it. In reality, every line of policy is repudiated by a section, often by an influential section, of the country concerned. A foreign minister who waited until everyone agreed with him would have no foreign policy at all.”

“The brands with which we surround ourselves prop us up, make us feel sexy and beautiful, when in reality we're pretty dumpy creatures.”

Source : "Cartographer of Word Galaxies". Interview with Susan Lerner, logger.believermag.com. September 24, 2013.

“The reality of a serious writer is a reality of many voices, some of them belonging to the writer, some of them belonging to the world of readers at large.”

“Our constitution, in short, is a judge-made constitution, and it bears on its face all the features, good and bad, of judge-made law.”

Source : A.V. Dicey, J.W.F. Allison (2013). “The Law of the Constitution”, p.230, Oxford University Press

“It is not enough for me to ask question; I want to know how to answer the one question that seems to encompass everything I face: What am I here for?”

“There are no bad pictures; that's just how your face looks sometimes.”